Bug#354899: [Portaudio] Re: portaudio in Debian, license updates?

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi,

> Can you please identify yourself as someone who has legal qualification to 
> make the following assertions. I am concerned that any arbitrary Debian user 
> can take offence to our license without reasonable legal grounds. I simply 
> do not know who you are.

I am a Debian Developer; without any legal grounds; so I am suggesting
a clarification.  The packages and the sources only contain the
following:


PortAudio Portable Real-Time Audio Library
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is
requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that
they can be incorporated into the canonical version.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ON INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.




The web page (http://www.portaudio.com/license.html) has the following
additional clauses; which should be included in Debian package to
clarify:

Plain English Interpretation of the License
The following is a plain English interpretation of the license. This interpretation is not part of the license and has no legal significance. To understand the full legal implications of the license you should consult the license itself.

    * You can use PortAudio for free in your projects or applications, even commercial applications.
    * You do not have to make your own source available as open-source code just because you used PortAudio.
    * Do not take our copyright information out of the PortAudio source code.
    * If you fix a bug in PortAudio, please send us the fix.
    * You cannot sue us if your program fails because of PortAudio.



If I'm the only person uncomfortable with the current wording, so be it.
Please do add the extra interpretation quote into the Debian packages.

regards,
	junichi
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